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New Delhi - Seven students from a school in northern India tested positive for swine flu, after recently returning from a trip to the United States, officials said Tuesday. With 30 people testing positive for the virus in India, and all but two of th...

The North Carolina Senate has delayed until Wednesday its vote on a bill (S. 221) that would require public school systems in the state to offer a sex education curriculum that includes information on both abstinence and prevention of pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections, the

High levels of brain energy are required to maintain consciousness, a finding which suggests a new way to understand the properties of this still mysterious state of being, Yale University researchers report. At its simplest, consciousness can be defined as the ability to respond meaningfully to external stimuli. Most studies of consciousness have used imaging technology to try to pinpoint areas of brain activity during tasks such as memorization or problem solving.

Singapore - For Vani and Veena separation would be a relief. Born to landless labourers in the Indian state Andhra Pradesh, the 5-year-old twin sisters are conjoined at the head. Fused together at th...

Recent cuts to Arizona's AIDS Drug Assistance Program and other state services due to 'chronic underfunding of HIV services at the state and federal level, the increasing cost of medications and the increasing number of persons living with HIV who lack insurance to pay for these life-saving drugs,' will likely reverse the progress made in HIV treatment, J. Kevin Carmichael, an associate medical director at El Rio Community Health Center in Tucson, Ariz.

To hear Sharp rant is to understand why Kay Hagan, North Carolina's new senator, joined Richard Burr (R-N.C.) and 15 other senators to become the only Democrat to vote against the tobacco bill. And if any tobacco farmer has Hagan's ear, it is Sharp. Last year, when Hagan was a little-known candidate running in an uphill battle to unseat Republican Elizabeth Dole, she campaigned at Sharp's farm. The fiscally conservative tobacco farmers along the I-95 corridor here make up a constituency that often helps swing statewide elections, and they backed Hagan strongly. Hagan, 55, is no stranger to tobacco. A former lawyer and bank executive, she spent summers as a child stringing the leaves on her grandparents' farm. In the state legislature, she represented Greensboro, the headquarters of Lorillard Tobacco, which employs about 2,500 workers there. To call Hagan merely a defender of the 'golden leaf' industry would be an understatement. She is among tobacco's fiercest backers. In 2005, as c

The Genetic Interest Group, the UK patient organisation for all those affected by genetic disorders, has welcomed the adoption yesterday by EU Health Ministers of a Council Recommendation that calls on Member States to develop and implement plans or strategies for the treatment of rare diseases. Alastair Kent, Director of the Genetic Interest Group, said: 'This is an important step forward for the estimated 3.5 million people in the UK who are affected by rare disease.